Amal Clooney epitomized Old Hollywood glamour at the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards in Paris on Wednesday. The star shined in the spotlight with her sartorial choices and powerful words advocating for women’s rights.
Known to have an immaculate evening wardrobe, the human rights barrister never misses a beat when it comes to her red carpet ensembles. Typically, Clooney plucks her looks from the archives, wearing vintage Alexander McQueen and John Galliano – but this time, the lawyer wore a glittering white sequined one-shoulder feather-trimmed dress from Julie de Libran’s Fall/Winter 2022 Couture collection.
In keeping with Clooney’s stylishly sustainable efforts, the Parisian couturier is known for implementing deadstock materials to create her one-of-a-kind designs, reducing waste to make a more eco-friendly garment.
Clooney dazzled in dangling earrings and a diamond bracelet for the occasion. Adding to the glamour, the activist’s hair stylist and make-up artist for the evening, Dimitris Giannetos styled her hair in voluminous side-swept waves. For her makeup, he utilized Charlotte Tilbury products to give Clooney mile-long lashes, shimmering eyeshadow, rosy cheeks and a soft pink lip.
As the inaugural contributor to Cartier Voices, Clooney, along with Yara Shahidi and Mélanie Laurent, took the stage on Wednesday evening for the global entrepreneurship program.
“Throughout my career as a lawyer, I have sought to advance women’s rights,” said Clooney. “It seems pretty obvious that this is a worthy area of focus. Whether you believe in human rights or just prosperity, it is a good idea to try to unshackle half of the population of the world.”
She continued, “The latest data actually shows that women’s economic parity would add $12 trillion to the global economy – yet the percentage of philanthropic grants that go to women’s empowerment is in the single digits. And women’s rights in places as diverse as Afghanistan and the United States have been in retreat in recent years.”
Clooney, who’s the co-founder and co-president of the Clooney Foundation for Justice with her husband George, also told harrowing tales of her work across the world as an international lawyer. She’s worked on cases regarding access to education and has fought for women who have endured discrimination, sexual abuse and torture in Iraq, Malawi, Sudan and Tanzania. “Waging justice means trying to change the system, one case at a time.”
See her full speech here.
